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The Pratt Show has been canceled. The 30-year-old annual juried exhibition for graduating seniors was axed by administration. Pratt students and faculty have created a petition letter, for what’s being called the #bringbackprattshow campaign. [Change.org]

An amazing Tumblr studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life. [#algopop]

Find all your Modernist art needs in the latest eBay corner, “All About Yves.” Exhibition posters, prints, collectibles, even the 2012 limited-edition Yves Klein Euro (yes, this happened) are up for grabs. Ebay might come under fire for failing to vet its artworks. For $190,000.00, you can purchase a nude Yves Klein bust that comes with a “lifetime exchange certificate.” Just in case you change your mind. [eBay]

Over the years, so much has been written about the late Francesca Woodman that it seems nearly impossible to find a new approach to her work. Critic Paige K. Bradley did, however, in her write-up of the artist’s current show at Marian Goodman. Cheers to that. [Artforum]

It’s hard to play the CD-Rom games of our youth. Even some of the most well-known ones have suffered the fate of many commercial releases: here for a season, then gone the next. Wanting them back—it’s not just a matter of needing some keyboard nostalgia; it’s about historicizing gaming.

Artnet published part two of Paddy’s A Brief History of Animated GIF Art series. This installment covers the golden age of social media GIFs. [artnet News]

In “How a Palestinian Artist Turned Detainment Into a Creative Opportunity,” the fact that Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar could not legally come into the United States for his exhibition gave him a chance to ship new work. (Yay?) And then this supposedly happened: “In addition, Jarrar organized a satellite project at art space Undercurrent Projects, which consisted of informal panel discussions about the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as talks about Jarrar’s works and the state of art in Palestine.” Yes, that series was organized, but it never got off the ground. It never took place. [GOOD]

In need of a $5,600 skateboard with a whimsical skull drawn on it, or maybe a $4,300 high-gloss nude of Pamela Anderson? Then go down to Damien Hirst’s gift shop in Soho. Some of this stuff actually looks pretty great. [The New York Times]

Johnson also tells Yahoo! News about the Mona Lisa of digital art. And the answer is…it does not exist. But in Johnson’s opinion, the most widely-recognized digital artwork is Jon Rafman’s “9 Eyes of Google Street View,” which premiered right here on Art F City. [Yahoo! Tech]

Crazy town. A judge has ruled that Rauschenberg trustees can receive $24.6 million in fees from the foundation. This number is considerably less than the $60 million Bennet Grutman, Rauschenberg’s accountant; Darryl Pottorf, executor of the artist’s will; and Bill Goldston, a business partner of the artist in a fine art print publishing company were looking for, but more than the $375,000 the foundation wanted to pay. $24.6 million fees are reasonable, citing their exemplary job growing the value of the estate. [The Art Newspaper]

Somebody named Richard Lawler called art advisor Todd Levin this weekend about two “newly discovered” Leonardo da Vinci paintings. Are they real? Levin seems to doubt their authenticity. Artnet called Lawler, but the call was off the record. [artnet News]

Werner Herzog gets interviewed by New York Magazine. They talk about his life’s work, his vision, his views on culture and filmmakers, Nazis and tourists, and we’re here to boil it down into a few soundbites. Actually, no. You just gotta read it. [Vulture]

It’s Barack Obama’s birthday. [Twitter]

All the ice cream cake stores in New York that will write “Free Palestine” on your cake. Dairy Queen will not. [ANIMAL New York]

The Marina Abramovic Institute, currently fundraising for a $20 million Rem Koolhaas-designed headquarters, is seeking unpaid volunteers . MAI responds to claims about unpaid labor with a statement that spools in the type of language we always hear that it’s about connections and exposure. Money? You can live without that for several months, right? And commute between Hudson and New York City for the MAI on no money, too. [Los Angeles Times]

A new study reveals that women are more likely to be lied to in negotiations than men. “One of the study’s experiments showed that part of the reason women are lied to more often is that they’re perceived as being less competent but warmer than men in negotiations.” [Time]

A weird, $999,000 Rembrandt painting appeared on eBay last week. Now, there’s furniture from the Élysée Palace, home to the French president, turning up on there too. This also comes after the news that 32 artworks and 625 pieces of furniture were missing from the residence. Sketchy. [Artnet News via Le Figaro]

Well-known horrible person George Zimmerman is selling his personal artwork on eBay … bidding has nearly topped $100,000. (Thanks, Joseph Beuys, for the constant reminder that anyone and everyone can be an artist.) [Vanity Fair]

Film Comment gives us their Top 50 films of the year. 2013: This year has given me just enough time to see two of these films. It’s been a year of busy blogging. [Film Comment]

WELL, THIS WAS UNEXPECTED: Detroit’s bankruptcy ruling will be appealed. [Detroit Free Press]

The Hugo Boss Prize gives a single artist $100,000 and a solo show at the Guggenheim. The 2014 finalists were announced last week, and we haven’t said much about it because, well, as the Times points out, the list isn’t full of too many surprises. [The New York Times]

Is the Internet like a “stream” or a wealth of “pages”? #metaphorproblems [The Atlantic]

What doth plague the House of Sotheby’s? Less than a full rotation of the moon has gone by since Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Art Tobias Meyer left under a cloudy resignation. Perhaps to shed its former woes, new changes are abreast; Sotheby’s has hired Domenico De Sole (from luxury fashion retailers Tom Ford and Gucci) as the auction house’s Lead Independent Director. [Art Market Monitor]

New publication “The Artist as Curator” claims the history of artists is an “understudied phenomenon.” Really? Nobody else cared to write or talk about this until now? [The Artist as Curator]

What do you say to a guy who’s most frequently described as the artist who “radically redefined the status of the object in art”? I don’t usually get nervous about biography points like this, but I made an exception for Haim Steinbach. Unlike a lot of art, there’s no answer key to his angular shelves and arrangement of objects – and that can make a viewer nervous. Certainly, it affected me; it took two anxiety-filled weeks just produce a 700-word review on his show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery last month, and I still worry about whether I got it right.

Steinbach himself, though, isn’t quite so intimidating. Now 67, the New York-based artist seems just as interested in the door hinge next to him as he might be about any given conversation. He’s obsessed with objects in the world around him. Recently, we talked about how that intense focus informs his work and thinking.